News & Reports

By Al Monitor – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ratified amendments to the country’s Emergency Law, granting the armed forces the power of judicial oversight [...]

By Marlo Safi – The Daily Caller – An US-based advocacy group for minorities in Egypt is alerting the world about the disappearances and forced conversions to Islam of Christian [...]

By Amnesty International – The decisions by a “terrorism circuit” judges at the Cairo Criminal Court to extend – without respect for basic due process guarantees – the pre-trial detention [...]

By Seth Binder of POMED and William D. Hartung of Center for International Policy – Since overthrowing Egypt’s democratically elected president in 2013, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has [...]

By Declan Walsh – The New York Times – Shady Habash had been held without trial at a maximum-security prison for two years. His lawyer said the cause of death was unknown. CAIRO [...]

By WSJ – Shady Habash was one of thousands of artists and activists arrested in recent years as Abdel Fattah Al Sisi attempts to snuff out potential challenges to his rule. An Egyptian [...]

By POMED, On World Press Freedom Day of May 3, the international watchdog group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released its 2020 World Press Freedom Index. Unsurprisingly, the Middle East [...]

By: Reporters without Borders – Egypt ranks 166 out of 180 in the 2020 Press Freedom Index. The press freedom situation is becoming more and more alarming in Egypt, with frequent waves of raids [...]

By USCIRF – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2020 USCIRF Releases 2020 Annual Report with Recommendations for U.S. Policy  Finds Both Progress and Backsliding in Religious Freedom Conditions [...]

By International Christian Concern – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on April 21, 2020, Christian human rights activist Mary Fatima Mohammadi received a suspended [...]